1To George Washington from Emmanuel de Pliarne, 11 January 1776 (Washington Papers)
Your kind wishes for the success of our business oblige us to inform you of every Step we have taken since our arriva’l at Philadelphia. We have been thirteen Days in that City, and have every minute promise’d ourselves the Honour of an opportunity, to write to you, but we thought it most proper to learn first the disposition of Congress, which we could not obtain before Yesterday, when we...